• Performing
    Arts
  • Visual
    Arts

  • Visiting Artist Ed Palermo

    A new program this year is Trinity's visiting artist program in the Performing Arts Department. The program is designed to capitalize on the diversity and talent of the performing artists who live in, work in, and visit New York City. Throughout the academic year the department will bring in artists to perform for the students and then teach in their classes, expanding their educational experiences.

    The Ed Palermo Big Band, headed by Ed Palermo...the arranger, alto saxophone and guitar playing band leader. The band is known for distinctive big band interpretations of the great twentieth century composer, Frank Zappa. Featured on  NPR's Weekend Edition in 2006 and performing throughout New York City and the region, the band interprets Zappa's beautiful but notoriously difficult material with apparent ease. The band is comprised of professional musicians from in and around New York City, including Katie Jacoby (electric violin) and Bruce McDaniel (guitar) who are featured in this video.

    This video provides a unique opportunity to see segments from the band's concert during Upper School Community Time and to watch Katie Jacoby and Bruce McDaniel work with Middle School and Upper School students.


  • Lower School Trinity Tones

    Watch the Lower School choral group, the Trinity Tones, in this short documentary that shows rehearsals, performances, and includes interviews with their director, Lower School Music Teacher Ms. Tieng, and several of the students.

  • Upper School Theatre IV

    In the second semester of their senior year, Theatre IV students at Trinity may choose to direct a one-act play. In the 2010-2011 academic year Diedre J. Banton ’11, Maxwell DeLott ’11, Gordon Penn Reed ’11, and Peter Elman Ronson ’11 decided to take on this challenge. Diedre and Gordon opted to direct plays that they had written, while Max and Peter decided to direct works written by others. Drama and English Teacher Michael Gilbert teaches the Theatre IV course, although the students are entirely responsible for casting the plays, rehearsing them, and getting them ready for two nights of performances.

    This short documentary follows the students from the first day of class to the final night of performance. It provides a unique opportunity to watch the students as they meet and overcome numerous challenges as directors and as actors. The documentary runs a total of seventeen minutes and is divided into two parts.

    This program contains strong language and adult themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • Theatre IV - Performance

    Full-length performance of the Theatre IV production, Hitting on Women 101, a play written by Bruce Kane that is directed by Maxwell DeLott '11.

    This program contains adult themes and language. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • Theatre IV - Performance

    Full-length performance of the Theatre IV production of Hurt, written and directed by Gordon Penn Reed '11.

    This program contains adult themes and strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • Theatre IV - Performance

    Full-length performance of Type, written and directed by Diedre J. Banton '11.

    This performance contains adult themes and language. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • Middle School Printmaking

    Middle School students have the opportunity to explore many different visual art disciplines, including printmaking in Grades Five and Six with Visual Arts Teacher Marisol Martinez. The students begin by creating a drawing of a variety of objects, which they then transfer to a foam plate—the surface that they will use to create their prints. During the six weeks of the course the students learn to create patterns, mix colors, print multiple colors on the same print, and they discover other techniques that allow them to realize their creative visions.

    This documentary follows the students from the first day of class to the last, showing the progression of the students' skills as well as of their creative work.

  • Grade One Circus Train

    In Grade One the students spend part of their arts education creating sculptures made of wood and other materials to be part of a circus train, reminiscent of the trains that would pull into towns across America with separate cars for each part of the circus. The students begin the project by using their imaginations…thinking of scenes that they believe to be or wish were part of the circus. They move on to drawing what they have imagined and then begin work to turn that two dimensional representation back into a three dimensional object. Along the way the students gain skills, including the use of tools, as well as confidence in their abilities.

    For six weeks in the winter of 2011, the steady progression of the students' work on the circus train was documented on digital video. After the project was completed, the students were asked to describe their experiences throughout the project and Mr. Edelstein was asked to describe the project and its goals.

    Nearly eight hours of footage has been edited into the six minute documentary you can see here. It is a wonderful opportunity to be able to watch the students as they learn and grow more confident in their work and their choices.

     

  • Upper School Printmaking

    Upper School students at Trinity may select from a wide-range of courses in the Visual Arts, including a course in printmaking. This course, which is available to all students who have completed either the Drawing and/or Painting courses, may include instruction in etching, intaglio and/or relief printing processes. Beyond the familiar linoleum cutting, relief processes may include Japanese wood block cutting, reduction printing techniques and the creation and printing of callographs.  Students are encouraged to take an experimental approach on their way to defining their own unique voice.

    Visual Arts faculty member Harrison Williams offers study in etching and printmaking and, in this video, demonstrates some of the techniques his students learned during 2009-2010.